Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 5 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 6 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 7 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 8 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 9 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 10 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 11 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 12 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 13 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 14 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 15 | The sense of great loyalty is apparent , and the waste of life as if the knights dying ‘ man by man ’ are dominoes being knocked over in a long line . |
| 16 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 17 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 18 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 19 | The common language here is ‘ ASCII , comma-delimited ’ which simply means that the data fields in each record have commas stuck between them and are sent out as a long line of text with a carriage return indicating the end of the record . |
| 20 | Briefly , after diagnostic ERCP , endoscopic sphincterotomy is carried out with a long nose sphincterotome . |
| 21 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 22 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 23 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 24 | I was born in May 1947 , when the whole of Britain was thawing out of a long , freezing winter made crueller by a fuel crisis . |